Sara Paretsky Quotes
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
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After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.
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All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.
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I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.
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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
